Buku ini memuat dua novela George Eliot dengan dua ide cerita yang sangat jauh berbeda. Brother Jacob mengangkat cerita tentang hubungan dua bersaudara antara David Faux yang sangat egois serta ambisius dan kakaknya yang idiot, Jacob. David Faux, seorang anak petani Inggris, yang terbiasa makan dendeng babi dan pangsit, mempunyai ilusi menyenangkan bahwa penjual kembang gula pastilah seora…
Walk around any famous city and layers of history start to emerge. In London Roman Walls stand shoulder to shoulder with modern architecture. In Rome, ancient treasures like the Colosseum stand shoulder to shoulder with buildings from the Renaissance. In New York, skyscrapers from the 1920s and 1930s have been upstaged by enormous glass towers. In Cities in Layers, six famous world cities …
Tuan Jones dari Pertanian Manor sangat malas dan pemabuk berat. Suatu hari dia lupa memberi makan binatang-binatang peliharaannya, maka terjadilah pemberontakan di bawah pimpinan dua babi bernama Napoleon dan Snowball. Para binatang mengambil alih pertanian itu dan berikrar untuk menghapuskan ketidaksetaraan yang sangat timpang di antara mereka. Pertanian Manor ganti nama menjadi Pertanian Hewa…
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his…
It's time to go back to school. But Tortoise is worried. What if he falls down? What if he doesn't like lunch? What if the kids are mean to him? What if he falls down, doesn't like lunch, and the kids are mean to him? The perfect back-to-school book about being brave, with a surprise at the end!
Overview: It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war-and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator …
Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she has left behind. She is like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world. And in the stern Puritan community of her relatives, she soon feels caged as well, and lonely. In the meadows, the only place where s…